Has anyone encountered a serious case of lag on Halo 4 matchmaking? I’ve never encountered so much lag in a video-game before ever in my life. My Internet connection is decent, and definetely good enough to play online. But somewhere along in my hours of gameplay today I encountered LOTS and LOTS of lag. I was being shot at by people who teleported right behind me. People were teleporting everywhere and I kept getting sent to different places on the map. I was even sent flying off of Haven and the game counted it as a suicide.
Is anyone else experiencing this problem? I’m pretty sure it’s a problem with the game so I hope that it can be fixed by a future update or something. Because it really takes away a lot of the fun and also even ruins my K/D ratio. And I don’t want that to happen.
I am sure extremely BAD lag happens to a lot of players; however I feel that again, Australians get no reprieve from BAD host connections in the US/Canada etc.
I obviously don’t lay blame US/Canadian players but something seriously needs to be done to fix this problem. Australians have always had to deal with BAD LAG games with hosts in US and other regions. Reach was a littler better where you could select “good connection”.
It feels that I get games that have extremely bad lag - time after time after time. What is the point in (also another issue) with a join in progress game to be playing in a game which is near impossible to play because of the lag.
I have the highest internet connection speed Australians are able to obtain, but I continually get games with BAD LAG.
Options - either quit and eventually get banned or alternatively “play” when I can’t really “play” at all.
I simply dont understand why 343 cannot implement a better hosting system. Either a dedicated hosting servers for different regions or at least put back the option of selecting games with a “good connection”.
I am a huge halo fan but if this issue is not fixed I will have no option but to find an alternative game. Yes, I can put up with some bad lag games but not on a frequent basis.
Although I hate to even mention the word - COD… I do not get the systematic and frequent lag issues i continue to face with Halo 4.
Can someone please seriously have a look at how the games are hosted and investigate all alternatives to come up with a viable solution.
Yes the lag is bad in this game, the last two Halo games I played did have some lag now and then but this Halo 4 lag is crazy, one time I was driving the ghost through Exile and suddenly I was shot way up into the sky to my death from the lag. In the past Halo games I have played lagging was rare, and when it did happen it did not effect gameplay much, in Halo 4 almost every other game is lagging for me, some so bad it is completely unplayable with people vanishing and appearing in and out at random, this to me is the most disappointing aspect of the game, it makes me consider giving it up but I will hold out for now and see what happens.
I have a solid connection, 100Mb Down and 10Mb up but rarely seem to get host.
My connection is used only by me so when i’m gaming it is 100% dedicated so why do people with horrible connections keep getting host?
Want to help Halo 4, start giving me host.
That’s if I continue to play it anymore because it is simply not fun playing laggy games. Huge shame as I spent a lot of money setting up a games room, using asus rt ac66u, QoS, xbox DMZ, what else can I do to improve my connection.
343 have screwed up big time. Get some dedicated servers or sort out the host system. RUINED WHAT SHOULD BE A WONDERFUL GAME perhaps beta testing would have been prudent after all considering all the other issues.
If I could return the limited edition H4 I bought I would because you have let us all down with the multiplayer lag and server issues.
Yep massive amounts of latency in 80% of games.
It’s really getting frustrating now. Considering going back to reach. Was loving reach in the months before 4 so may as well go back.
I’ve encountered times where the enemy I’m trying to shoot just instantly jumps to one place to another and I can’t get my BR shots off very well, and sometimes they just run in to a wall and when I shoot them, they don’t take damage, I once wasted an ENTIRE BR clip into someone without missing and he didn’t die, nor did his shields pop, they didn’t even take any damage.
> I’ve encountered times where the enemy I’m trying to shoot just instantly jumps to one place to another and I can’t get my BR shots off very well, and sometimes they just run in to a wall and when I shoot them, they don’t take damage, I once wasted an ENTIRE BR clip into someone without missing and he didn’t die, nor did his shields pop, they didn’t even take any damage.
Hey, DamienJaller! Same thing happened to me once, except it was with an Assault Rifle.
Whenever the lag is so bad it kills me over 8 times, I just feel like throwing my Xbox controller at the TV screen lol. Can the lag somehow be fixed? Probably can, so 343 better get to it.
I am having this same problem. Sometimes it is intermittent but other times it is consistently laggy the entire evening. I also get horrible framerate along with the lag, which is different than anything I have seen with an Xbox game. I think it must be somehow related to the data installed to the disc from disc 2. I did not do an install of disc 1, but disc 2 was installed to a flash memory stick.
Having an overseas or poor-connection host destroys gameplay most of the time. Even in situations where host migrates, about a third of the time some of the current players are ripped from the game-in-progress and thrown into a JiP game, typically replacing folks who just rage-quit with the match half or more finished.
halfway through games i get kicked, i walk through the same doorway 60 times, which is extremely frustrating. i die at random times, not killed by another player. my kd has gone to -Yoink-. every single game the lag is terrible i tried to put up with it but thats it. waste of time and money. thanks 343.
While i haven’t had the lag issues all the time, it does seem that 2/5 games i join end up having some bad lag at some point during them, and the host regularly has to be migrated. Honestly it’s much worse than 3 or Reach, and really needs addressing. I live in the South East US so i should have a decent connection with allot of good hosts nearby, but I still lag very regularly, often to my demise / loss of a decent k/d spread.
Oh, and online campaign / spartan ops are completely unplayable for me, the lag not only causes me to teleport around the map, but actually causes my FPS to drop? ON A CONSOLE? Offline spartan ops and campaign, no issue whatsoever, online is unplayable. So i can’t access 25-40% of the games online content, i can only play War Games and even that lags as i said.
Seriously it needs tl be sorted out, especially if you want to retain an audience now that Black Ops 2 is out ( i don’t like COD but i know many halo players will up and leave for a less laggy, new game). Just get some dedicated servers or something 343, or you’ll see a loss of fanbase very rapidly.
hey bros greetings from australia last few days have barely been able to play a single game without havinng massive lag. normally it’s like my shields don’t go down from dmr shots until a few seconds later and they go down all at once…but its even like i go off the grav lift on adrift and just die…i fall and it says suicide because of lag. i can’t believe this is happening it’s completely ruined my experience and i think it’s not my internet…if this is not fixed im going to have to think hard about my options cos it’s been going on for a while and its getting ridiculous. halo 4 has enough problems without this haha…
-crippledillusionist(LIFE)
